Research Article
The Accurate Interpretation and Clinical Significance of Morphological Features of Fine Needle Aspiration Cells in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Table 6
The diagnostic performance of combined interpretation via morphological characteristics of PTC (100%).
| | Performance | INCIs | +Swirls | +Escape | +PBs | +True papillae |
| | Sensitivity (±95% CI) | 97.32 (±1.72) | 98.21 (±1.41) | 98.81 (±1.15) | 98.81 (±1.15) | 98.81 (±1.15) | | Specificity (±95% CI) | 100 (±0) | 100 (±0) | 100 (±0) | 100 (±0) | 100 (±0) | | PPV (±95% CI) | 100 (±0) | 100 (±0) | 100 (±0) | 100 (±0) | 100 (±0) | | NPV (±95% CI) | 95.63 (±2.79) | 97.04 (±2.32) | 98.01 (±1.93) | 98.01 (±1.93) | 98.01 (±1.93) | | Accuracy (±95% CI) | 98.31 (±1.09) | 98.87 (±0.89) | 99.25 (±0.73) | 99.25 (±0.73) | 99.25 (±0.73) |
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INCIs: intranuclear cytoplasmic pseudoinclusions; PBs: psammoma bodies; NPV: negative predictive value; PPV: positive predictive value.
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